EP0241790A1 - Système pour l'automatisation de la palettisation de liasses - Google Patents

Système pour l'automatisation de la palettisation de liasses Download PDF

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EP0241790A1
EP0241790A1 EP87104608A EP87104608A EP0241790A1 EP 0241790 A1 EP0241790 A1 EP 0241790A1 EP 87104608 A EP87104608 A EP 87104608A EP 87104608 A EP87104608 A EP 87104608A EP 0241790 A1 EP0241790 A1 EP 0241790A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G57/00—Stacking of articles
    • B65G57/02—Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack
    • B65G57/03—Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack from above
    • B65G57/035—Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack from above with a stepwise downward movement of the stack
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G57/00—Stacking of articles
    • B65G57/02—Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack
    • B65G57/03—Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack from above
    • B65G57/06—Gates for releasing articles
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S414/00—Material or article handling
    • Y10S414/10—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns
    • Y10S414/106—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns including means for supplying pallet or separator to group

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  • This invention relates to a system for automating the stacking of bundles onto a pallet, and it includes both the apparatus and method for palletizing. Further, the bundles are stacked and bound sheets from a printing press.
  • US-A-3 022 6l7 shows the load­ing of kegs onto a pallet which is in the raised position, and the pallet is lowered while more kegs are placed there­ on, and eventually the pallet with the kegs is lowered to a conveyor which moves the load to one side.
  • DE-B-2 72l 675 also shows the loading of sheets onto a scissors table or the like by means of an overhead crane which deposits un­bound sheets onto the table.
  • GB-B-595 922 shows the lifting of a stack of sheets up to a feeder, and with the sheets resting on a support which is under the control of the lifting device.
  • GB-B-992 487 shows an article stacker.
  • the invention provides for additional pallet support means permitting advantageous features the filled pallet to be in the process of lowering and removal while at the same time the next pallet is already supported in position and is being loaded.
  • the present invention provides for a system, including apparatus and method, whereby high-speed palletizing is accomplished in that there is no delay or waiting time while one loaded pallet is being removed and before another pallet can be positioned for loading it.
  • the present invention provides for a system whereby a continuous movement of the bundles is possible, and there is no delay nor interruption in the removal of a loaded pallet while the next pallet is simply being retained in a position for loading it.
  • continuous bundle movement and loading is achieved, and the loading is done at an elevated position and the pallet is then lowered while another pallet is placed in the elevated position and is being loaded while the previous pallet with its load is being removed.
  • the present invention provides for a system, including method and apparatus, for the continuous flow of bundles of sheets from a printing press to a pallet, in­cluding the stacking, strapping, and movement from those locations and onto a pallet.
  • the accomplishment of this ob­ject also includes the automatic positioning of each suc­cessive pallet at the elevated location where the bundles are placed onto the pallet while the previous pallet with its bundles is being removed from that location.
  • FIG. l The diagrammatic plan view of the system depicted in Fig. l includes a conventional type of stacker, generally designated l0, and showing a stack ll formed thereon at the usual and well-known downwardly in­clined angle, such as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the stack ll is mov­ed rightward, as viewed in Fig. l, and a conventional strapper or binder l2 provides a strap at l5 around the bundle, in the conventional manner well-known to anyone skilled in the art.
  • the stack ll moves from the stacker and strapper to the position shown centrally in Fig. l, and that is a horizontal position for the stack ll.
  • Figs. 2 and 3 show the stacker l0 in the respective reclin­ing and horizontal positions, under the influence of a tilting cylinder assembly l3.
  • a stack conventional clamp l4 such as that shown in US-A-­4 lll 3l0, and which is under the influence of an overhead crane which is not shown but is also conventional, engages the stack ll and lifts it into the loading area generally designated l6.
  • Fig. 4 shows the stack ll in the grip of the conventional clamp l4 and in that elevated position generally designated l7.
  • a pallet l8 is also shown in the elevated position l7, and it is immediately beneath the stack ll which is lowered onto the pallet l8 in an appropri­ate position to provide for placement of several bundles ll in side-by-side positions in one layer on the pallet l8, such as shown with the bundles ll on the already lowered pallet designated l9 in Fig. 4.
  • Fig. l shows a pallet hopper, generally designated 20, which has the pallets thereon in a position adjacent the loading station l6.
  • the pallets l8 are suitably positioned onto a pallet holder designated 2l and shown in Fig. l to consist of two spaced-apart angle rails 22 which are spac­ed-apart the distance of the dimension across the pallet l8, as shown.
  • the rails 22 have angulated ends 23 which serve as lead ends for the sliding of the pallet l8 horizontally and onto the holder 2l, such as shown in the pallet supported position in Figs. 4 and 6.
  • the bundles ll can be deposited onto the pallet l8 in sequential order so that the pallet l8 is loaded with some of the bundles ll, such as the lower layer of bundles designated 24 on the pallet l9.
  • the lower pallet l9 with its bundles ll can be lowered to the position shown in Fig. 4 and moved laterally away from that position, such as by movement on rollers 26 and 27. That is, the pallet l9 is then on a scissors table 28 of a conventional arrangement, and shown herein, for raising and lowering its table top 29 which incorporates the rollers 26 for the lateral movement mentioned.
  • the scissors table 28 can again operate to raise its top 29 to the elevation l7 and lift the pallet l8 off the holder 2l, such as shown in Fig. 5. With the pallet l8 thus supported on the scissors table 28 in that elevated position l7, the pallet holder 2l can then be moved out of the holding position of the pallet, such as by swinging the rails 22 to the dotted position shown in Fig. 4.
  • the pallet l8 and its bundles ll can be lowered generally one layer of bundles l8 and the overhead crane and clamp l4, supported on the crane rail 3l can continue loading the bundles onto the pallet l8, such as in the second layer of bundels ll.
  • the scissors table 28 would lower another layer of bundles ll and then the third or upper layer of bundles ll could be positioned onto the then lowered pallet l8 to complete loading the pallet l8 if three layers of bundles l8 are desired.
  • the process is then repeated with the non-stop movement of the loading of the bundles ll onto a third pallet positioned onto the holder 2l while the pallet l8 is lowered to the elevation of the rollers 27 and moved thereon and out of the way.
  • the holder 2l includes the two spaced-apart rails or mem­bers 22 shown pivotally mounted on pivots 32 suitably supp­orted on a frame, and the members 22 have arms 33 extending to a pin 34 which connects to a fluid cylinder assembly 36.
  • the assembly 36 is pivotally mounted on a frame portion 37, by means of pivot pin 38. It will therefore be ssen and un­derstood extension of the cylinder assembly 36, whether pneumatic or hydraulic, will swing the arm 33 to the dotted position shown in Fig. 4, and thus move the rails 22 down­wardly through ninety degrees of pivot and out of the way of the lowering movement of the pallet l8.
  • That arrangement includes the relationship of the scissors table top 29 being narrower than the shortest distance between the holder rails 22, as clearly shown in Fig. 5.
  • a roller drive motor 39 is suitably connected with the roller 26 to drive the rollers to displace the lowered pallet, such as the pallet l9, rightwardly and onto the rollers 27.
  • Fig. 6 shows that the pallet hopper 20 can be a scissors table 4l and a plurality of pallets designated l8 is shown thereon. As mentioned, these pallets rise to the elevation l7 which is the elevation of the pallet holder 2l, as shown in Fig. 6. Thus, sliding the uppermost pallet l8 rightward­ly, as viewed in Fig. 6, will position that pallet l8 onto the holder 2l and underneath the position that the overhead crane or lift means or clamp l4 will deposit the bundle ll onto the pallet l8.
  • a pallet pusher 42 is shown adjacent the stack of pallets l8, and it will be understood that it can be a fluid cylin­der which would move a pusher finger 43 rightwardly, as viewed in Fig. 6, to push the top pallet l8 onto the rails 22 and against a stop 44 which can be an adjustable stop so that the precise location of the pallet l8 can be accom­plished.
  • a stop 44 which can be an adjustable stop so that the precise location of the pallet l8 can be accom­plished.
  • the table top 29 with its rollers 26 will rise to a position above the rails 22 and thus lift the pallet l8 off the rails 22, in the arrangement also indicated in Fig. 6.
  • a sensing switch 46 senses the lowering of the pallet l9 toward the position shown in Fig. 4, and that signal is sent to a switch 47 connected to the pusher 42 for the pallet l8 and thus the pallet l8 is positioned onto the rails 22 which have been placed into the full line position or closed position shown in Figs.
  • a conventional photo eye 5l can be positioned at the elevation l7 and can be connected to a standard drive or control for the pallet hopper table 4l to raise the table 4l to that position where the uppermost pallet l8 is at the elevation l7 and ready for sliding in­sertion onto the rails 22, as described.
  • photo sensors can be utilized on the clamp l4, such as the sensor 52 which is available for the lateral positioning of the bundle ll in its correct position on the pallet so that the bundles are in tight side-by-side position, as shown.
  • another photo sensor such as the sensor 53, can be positioned adjacent the loading elevation l7 for determ­ining the completion of a layer of bundles ll on the pallet and then control the lowering of the table 28, layer by layer.
  • Those photo sensors mentioned and described are conventional and can be arranged and utilized, such as shown in US-A-4 4l9 035 and US-A-4 5l9 740 with respect both the positioning of the bundles on the pallet and also the lowering of the scissors table.
  • Fig. 5 shows that the pallet holder 2l is arranged to have its holding member 22 adjustable toward and away from each other, such as by provision for the additional angle members 54 which can be fastened to the base members 22, all to adjust to the widths of the pallet l8, in the rela­tionship as shown in Fig. 5.

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